https://londonpallettrucks.co.uk/news/Buying notes, range news and offers from London Pallet Trucks: pallet trucks, pump trucks, stackers, forklifts, shopping trolleys and roll cages for UK businesses. Written for buyers, not for search engines, with real prices and real products.en-gbhttps://londonpallettrucks.co.uk/news/warehouse-trolley-prices-by-type/https://londonpallettrucks.co.uk/news/warehouse-trolley-prices-by-type/Sun, 15 Nov 2026 08:00:00 +0000Warehouse trolley prices sit in clear bands: a flat stock trolley from £28 ex VAT, bulk price, a 200 kg single deck platform trolley from £37 ex VAT, a three tier wire shelf trolley from £48 ex VAT, bulk price, and a heavy duty folding mesh trolley from £87 ex VAT, bulk price. Most of that spread comes from the number of tiers, the mesh sides and the folding frame, not from the rated load. Price, freight and VAT for your quantity are confirmed on your written quote.https://londonpallettrucks.co.uk/news/gondola-shelving-how-many-bays/https://londonpallettrucks.co.uk/news/gondola-shelving-how-many-bays/Sat, 14 Nov 2026 08:00:00 +0000Gondola shelving is the free standing bay a shop floor is built from, rated here at 120 kg a bay and from £96 ex VAT, bulk price. Bays bolt into runs, so the number you order comes from the clear aisle length divided by the bay width on your quote, not from a catalogue pack size. Single sided bays go against the wall, double sided bays go back to back down the middle, and the lighter racks and tables around them start from £23 ex VAT, bulk price.https://londonpallettrucks.co.uk/news/folding-step-ladder-or-fixed-rolling-steps/https://londonpallettrucks.co.uk/news/folding-step-ladder-or-fixed-rolling-steps/Fri, 13 Nov 2026 08:00:00 +0000A folding step ladder is from £44 ex VAT, bulk price and closes flat against a racking leg when the aisle has to clear. A large fixed rolling platform is from £96 ex VAT, bulk price and stays where you park it, with more to stand on. Of the 24 sets in the range the choice comes down to one question: how often do the steps have to be out of somebody's way?https://londonpallettrucks.co.uk/news/cleaning-shopping-baskets-routine-and-kit/https://londonpallettrucks.co.uk/news/cleaning-shopping-baskets-routine-and-kit/Thu, 12 Nov 2026 08:00:00 +0000Cleaning shopping baskets is a weekly job in most shops and a twice weekly one anywhere selling loose produce, bakery, raw meat or fish. A 40 L solid plastic hand basket starts from £3 ex VAT, bulk price and wipes down in under a minute, while a 50 L folding mesh basket starts from £11 ex VAT, bulk price and drains on its own once rinsed. Hold roughly one spare basket for every ten on the floor so a batch can be out of use while it dries.https://londonpallettrucks.co.uk/news/shopping-trolley-with-child-seat/https://londonpallettrucks.co.uk/news/shopping-trolley-with-child-seat/Wed, 11 Nov 2026 08:00:00 +0000A shopping trolley with child seat is a full size trolley that carries a small child at the handle end while the parent shops, and guide prices start from £20 ex VAT, bulk price, for a 160 L version. Moulded ride in trolleys, where a toddler sits inside a plastic body rather than on a seat, start from £120 ex VAT, bulk price, per set, and a car bodied trolley is from £156 ex VAT, bulk price. Seat size, the restraint strap, basket volume, castors and colour are all set on your written quote, because every trolley in the children's trolley range is made to order.https://londonpallettrucks.co.uk/news/paper-roll-clamp-rotating-or-fixed/https://londonpallettrucks.co.uk/news/paper-roll-clamp-rotating-or-fixed/Tue, 10 Nov 2026 08:00:00 +0000A paper roll clamp holds reels, drums and barrels between curved arms that follow the shape of the load, and the fixed arm version starts from £3,280 ex VAT. A rotating clamp does the same work and turns the load through 360 degrees, from £3,620 ex VAT, so it is worth the extra only if you tip, invert or lay rolls on their side. Both versions need a spare hydraulic service on the forklift, and rotation needs one more.https://londonpallettrucks.co.uk/news/semi-electric-stacker-lift-height-and-capacity/https://londonpallettrucks.co.uk/news/semi-electric-stacker-lift-height-and-capacity/Mon, 09 Nov 2026 08:00:00 +0000A semi electric stacker powers the mast and leaves the push to the operator, which puts a 1 t pallet on a 3.5 m beam from £640 ex VAT. Lift height is the figure that sets the price: a 1.6 m to 3.5 m walkie model is £710 ex VAT, bulk price, and a 4.5 m mast with adjustable forks is £1,170 ex VAT. Rated capacity is quoted at the lowest fork position and tapers as the mast extends, so the rating at your own top beam is confirmed on your written quote.https://londonpallettrucks.co.uk/news/scrubber-dryer-tank-size-and-run-time/https://londonpallettrucks.co.uk/news/scrubber-dryer-tank-size-and-run-time/Sun, 08 Nov 2026 08:00:00 +0000A scrubber dryer carries its own clean and dirty water, so the tank size decides how much floor you cover before you stop and refill. A 540 mm walk behind machine starts from £930 ex VAT, a ride on with a 90 L tank from £1345 ex VAT, and the largest tanks on this site hold 155 L and 166 L. Size the tank to the area you clean in one run, not to the square metres per hour printed on the spec sheet.https://londonpallettrucks.co.uk/news/semi-electric-pallet-truck-or-full-electric/https://londonpallettrucks.co.uk/news/semi-electric-pallet-truck-or-full-electric/Thu, 05 Nov 2026 08:00:00 +0000A semi electric pallet truck powers the lift and leaves the push to the operator, and the 2 t portable version is priced from £440 ex VAT. A full electric walkie that drives as well as lifts starts lower, from £390 ex VAT at 1.5 t, so this is a decision about the job rather than the budget. Semi electric earns its place on short moves, tight back rooms and high lift work at a packing bench.https://londonpallettrucks.co.uk/news/folding-shopping-trolley-fold-flat-or-nesting/https://londonpallettrucks.co.uk/news/folding-shopping-trolley-fold-flat-or-nesting/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 08:00:00 +0000A folding shopping trolley means one of two things on a trade quote: a hand trolley whose basket and frame collapse flat for storage, or a supermarket trolley with a folding rear flap so it nests into the one in front. Fold flat models here are 60 L to 100 L and start from £20 ex VAT, while nesting mesh trolleys run 100 L to 270 L from £24 ex VAT, bulk price. Say which mechanism you want when you ask for a written quote on shopping trolleys, because the two are built differently.https://londonpallettrucks.co.uk/news/walkie-pallet-stacker-or-stand-on/https://londonpallettrucks.co.uk/news/walkie-pallet-stacker-or-stand-on/Tue, 03 Nov 2026 08:00:00 +0000A walkie pallet stacker is driven from a tiller by an operator on foot and starts from £1,035 ex VAT; a stand-on version of the same truck puts the operator on a fold down platform and starts from £1,315 ex VAT. Pick the walkie when the run from the bay to the racking is short and the aisle is tight. Pick the stand-on when the operator covers the length of the building all day, because walking pace is what limits pallets per hour.https://londonpallettrucks.co.uk/news/stainless-steel-pallet-truck-or-galvanised/https://londonpallettrucks.co.uk/news/stainless-steel-pallet-truck-or-galvanised/Mon, 02 Nov 2026 08:00:00 +0000A 304 stainless steel pallet truck starts from £485 ex VAT, while a fully galvanised truck for cold store and damp work starts from £102 ex VAT, bulk price, and a painted truck with galvanised forks from £76 ex VAT. Stainless is the one to buy where the truck is washed down with chemicals or runs in open food areas. Galvanised covers chilled stores, loading bays and yards for a fraction of the money.https://londonpallettrucks.co.uk/news/forklift-prices-uk-what-each-type-costs/https://londonpallettrucks.co.uk/news/forklift-prices-uk-what-each-type-costs/Sun, 01 Nov 2026 08:00:00 +0000Forklift prices start from £3,370 ex VAT for a 1 to 3.5 t lithium electric counterbalance truck, from £3,980 ex VAT for an LPG truck of 3 to 5 t and from £4,460 ex VAT for a 2 to 4.5 t diesel with a cabin. Narrow aisle work costs more, with four way electric trucks from £9,830 ex VAT. Every figure is a guide price ex VAT; freight, duty and VAT are confirmed on your written quote.https://londonpallettrucks.co.uk/news/forklift-beacon-reversing-alarm-or-mirror/https://londonpallettrucks.co.uk/news/forklift-beacon-reversing-alarm-or-mirror/Sat, 31 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000An amber forklift beacon is from £18 ex VAT, a reversing alarm is from £21 ex VAT and a rectangular mirror head is from £22 ex VAT, so a full set of warning parts for one truck sits at about the cost of a single call out. The beacon warns people before they hear the truck, the alarm covers the blind reverse and the mirror covers the corner the driver cannot turn to see. All three are stocked as parts that bolt on to trucks from 1 t to 10 t.https://londonpallettrucks.co.uk/news/mewp-checks-and-loler-inspection/https://londonpallettrucks.co.uk/news/mewp-checks-and-loler-inspection/Fri, 30 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000A MEWP lifts people, so under LOLER 1998 it needs a thorough examination by a competent person at least every 6 months, a pre-use check at the start of each shift, and records kept for both. A single mast machine that takes 150 kg to a 6 m platform height is listed from £1,035 ex VAT, and a self propelled electric scissor lift with a 300 kg deck at 6 m is from £4,000 ex VAT. Treat the inspection regime as part of the running cost of the machine, not as an extra.https://londonpallettrucks.co.uk/news/security-roll-cage-locked-door-or-cover/https://londonpallettrucks.co.uk/news/security-roll-cage-locked-door-or-cover/Thu, 29 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000A security roll cage is a roll container closed on all four sides, usually in mesh, and on most models fitted with a door that takes a padlock or a numbered seal. A locking mesh cage rated 300 kg starts from £48 ex VAT, bulk price, a four sided nestable cage rated 500 kg from £72 ex VAT, bulk price, and a roll container supplied with a printable tarpaulin cover from £28 ex VAT, bulk price. Choose by what the load is worth and by how many hands touch it between your bay and the shop floor.https://londonpallettrucks.co.uk/news/stainless-steel-trolley-or-zinc-plated/https://londonpallettrucks.co.uk/news/stainless-steel-trolley-or-zinc-plated/Wed, 28 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000A zinc plated steel mesh warehouse trolley costs from £37 ex VAT. A stainless steel trolley of a similar size, with two mesh shelves rated at 300 kg, costs from £44 ex VAT, bulk price. Paint and zinc plating protect the steel from the outside, so they fail where the coating is damaged, while stainless resists corrosion through the metal itself, which is what you are paying the difference for in wet, chilled or washdown areas.https://londonpallettrucks.co.uk/news/shop-display-stand-which-unit-for-which-spot/https://londonpallettrucks.co.uk/news/shop-display-stand-which-unit-for-which-spot/Tue, 27 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000A shop display stand is from £24 ex VAT, bulk price for a four tier wire rack and from £64 ex VAT, bulk price for an 80 kg promotion table, so the spread across the range is roughly two and a half times. The unit you need is decided by the spot, not the price: a mobile stand for an aisle end, a bulk food shelf for loose lines, a flat topped table for a stacked promotion. Height and footprint matter more than tier count, because a stand that blocks a trolley route gets moved to the stockroom within a week.https://londonpallettrucks.co.uk/news/mobile-safety-steps-how-many-sets/https://londonpallettrucks.co.uk/news/mobile-safety-steps-how-many-sets/Mon, 26 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Most sites need one set of mobile safety steps for every pick zone that holds stock above shoulder height, plus one at goods in, because a picker who has to walk three aisles to fetch steps will climb the racking instead. Prices run from £40 ex VAT for a two step stainless ladder trolley to £96 ex VAT, bulk price for a six step rolling platform, and most of the 24 models in the range are rated 500 kg. Count the zones first, then choose the height.https://londonpallettrucks.co.uk/news/plastic-shopping-basket-when-to-replace/https://londonpallettrucks.co.uk/news/plastic-shopping-basket-when-to-replace/Sun, 25 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000A plastic shopping basket for a UK shop floor starts from £3 ex VAT, bulk price for a 30 L hand basket, and a 50 L folding mesh basket starts from £11 ex VAT, bulk price. Baskets come out of use because of cracked handle pivots, split stacking rims and broken corners rather than because of their age. Walk the stacks with a full basket in your hand, pull the ones that have gone, and replace them in one order before your busiest trading weeks.https://londonpallettrucks.co.uk/news/mini-shopping-trolley-price-bands/https://londonpallettrucks.co.uk/news/mini-shopping-trolley-price-bands/Sat, 24 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000A mini shopping trolley, the small cart a child pushes beside the parent, starts from £11 ex VAT, bulk price, and most store ranks are bought in the £12 to £20 band. Above that the money goes on a welded steel frame, a 25 L basket and larger castors rather than on anything the shopper sees. The top of the children's trolley range is a themed steel trolley from £128 ex VAT, bulk price, which is a footfall feature rather than a rank trolley.https://londonpallettrucks.co.uk/news/forklift-bale-clamp-or-carton-clamp/https://londonpallettrucks.co.uk/news/forklift-bale-clamp-or-carton-clamp/Fri, 23 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000A forklift bale clamp grips soft, compressible loads such as wool, waste bales and packed textiles between two flat arms, and starts from £795 ex VAT. A carton clamp with side shifter, for boxed white goods and palletless cartons, starts from £1,990 ex VAT, and a paper roll clamp with curved arms for reels starts from £3,280 ex VAT. The load decides the clamp, not the truck.https://londonpallettrucks.co.uk/news/self-loading-stacker-for-van-deliveries/https://londonpallettrucks.co.uk/news/self-loading-stacker-for-van-deliveries/Thu, 22 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000A self loading stacker is a compact 500 kg machine that travels with the delivery, comes off at the drop and lifts the pallet to between 1100 mm and 1600 mm, from £1,005 ex VAT. The semi electric version keeps the hand push and powers the lift, at £1,155 ex VAT for a 1100 mm van model, while a full electric lithium machine powers the travel as well, from £1,005 ex VAT. If the pallet never leaves your own floor, a manual hand stacker at £445 ex VAT does the same lift for less.https://londonpallettrucks.co.uk/news/floor-scrubber-how-soon-can-you-walk-on-the-floor/https://londonpallettrucks.co.uk/news/floor-scrubber-how-soon-can-you-walk-on-the-floor/Wed, 21 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000A floor scrubber lays water and detergent, scrubs and then lifts the dirty water back off through a squeegee and vacuum in the same pass, so the strip behind the machine is damp rather than wet and staff can usually walk the aisle straight away. Cleaning widths run from 540 mm to 850 mm, from £930 ex VAT for a walk behind and from £1,415 ex VAT for a ride on scrubber dryer. Whether the floor really comes out dry depends on the squeegee blade, the travel speed and the water flow, all of which you control.https://londonpallettrucks.co.uk/news/electric-pallet-jack-cost-by-price-band/https://londonpallettrucks.co.uk/news/electric-pallet-jack-cost-by-price-band/Tue, 20 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000An electric pallet jack starts at £390 ex VAT for a 1.5 t lithium-ion walkie, and a 2 to 3 t stand-on rider begins at £1,590 ex VAT. Most cash and carry, retail and warehouse buyers settle between £440 and £680 ex VAT, which is the semi-electric and full electric walkie band. What you pay for above that is duty cycle, battery size and the operator riding rather than walking.https://londonpallettrucks.co.uk/news/how-many-shopping-trolleys-does-a-store-need/https://londonpallettrucks.co.uk/news/how-many-shopping-trolleys-does-a-store-need/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000How many shopping trolleys a store needs comes from one sum: the number of trolley shops in your busiest hour multiplied by the time a trolley is away from the rank. A store with 90 trolley shops in the peak hour, each trolley away for about half an hour, needs roughly 45 trolleys in circulation plus a reserve for the bays and for repairs. New trade shopping trolleys, also called supermarket trolleys or shopping carts, run from 60 L to 270 L and start from £16 ex VAT, bulk price.https://londonpallettrucks.co.uk/news/straddle-stacker-fork-over-or-counterbalance/https://londonpallettrucks.co.uk/news/straddle-stacker-fork-over-or-counterbalance/Sun, 18 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000A straddle stacker carries the load between two outrigger legs, so it will lift a closed base pallet, a stillage or a cage that a fork over stacker cannot get under. Guide prices run from £1,065 ex VAT for a 1.2 t fork over walkie, from £1,145 ex VAT for the straddle version at the same capacity, and from £2,750 ex VAT for an 800 kg counterbalance stacker with no legs at all. Measure the base and the outside width of your heaviest load before you choose, because the legs, not the mast, decide whether the truck fits.https://londonpallettrucks.co.uk/news/pallet-truck-with-scales-weighing-at-goods-in/https://londonpallettrucks.co.uk/news/pallet-truck-with-scales-weighing-at-goods-in/Sat, 17 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000A pallet truck with scales has load cells in the fork frame and a display on the truck, so the pallet is weighed on the forks as you move it instead of being walked to a floor scale. A manual truck with a scale rated 2 to 3 t is from £160 ex VAT, against from £76 ex VAT for a plain truck of similar capacity. The one question that decides which version you order is whether the weight settles money with someone else, because that needs a trade approved and verified instrument rather than an indication only readout.https://londonpallettrucks.co.uk/news/rough-terrain-forklift-or-yard-diesel/https://londonpallettrucks.co.uk/news/rough-terrain-forklift-or-yard-diesel/Fri, 16 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000A four wheel drive rough terrain forklift rated 2.5 to 3 t is from £7,960 ex VAT, against £4,460 ex VAT for a cabbed Euro 5 diesel counterbalance rated 2 to 4.5 t on pneumatic tyres. The extra money buys ground clearance, four wheel drive and tyres that float on soft going, so it pays on mud, grass, hardcore and slopes, and not on a potholed concrete yard. Ground clearance, tyre type and the steepest gradient you cross decide it, not the weather on the day.https://londonpallettrucks.co.uk/news/pallet-truck-wheels-nylon-or-polyurethane/https://londonpallettrucks.co.uk/news/pallet-truck-wheels-nylon-or-polyurethane/Thu, 15 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000A complete set of six pallet truck wheels, two steer wheels and four load rollers, is from £49 ex VAT in nylon and from £64 ex VAT in polyurethane. Both carry the same 2 t to 3 t rating, so the choice is about the floor: nylon rolls with the least effort and shrugs off grit, water and cold, polyurethane grips on ramps, runs quieter and is far less likely to mark a coated floor. Fitting new wheels is worth doing while the chassis, forks and pump are sound, which covers most trucks.